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show animation while waiting for new page to load

Hi,

I've got a search page, which takes quite long to produce results, so when people submit the search form (click search button) I would like to display a 'loading' animation until the results page loads.

I would like to achieve this via JavaScript if possible.

What's important here is that once the search button is clicked the new search loading page does not prevent the posted search query from failing.